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Re: Journey to the Center of the Earth

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott~at~kreative.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 22:50:08 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

I hope this Routledge doesn''t go for $14,000 too!
Norman M. Wolcott, nwolcott~at~kreative.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Evans" <aevans2~at~tds.net>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Journey to the Center of the Earth


> Dear Vernians,
>
> Malleson's translation of JOURNEY is much better than than the anonymous
> "Hardwigg" version by the publisher Griffith and Farran, but I don't
believe
> that it is necessarily the "most faithful" of the public domain editions.
> For example, the one published by Routledge in 1876 is, I believe,
> significantly better. But the Malleson is currently available in
paperback
> in the Wordsworth Classics series (1996), whereas the Routledge edition is
> extremely rare today.
>
> Best,
> Art
>
Received on Wed 11 Jul 2001 - 01:38:16 IDT

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